April, 1901' 



PSYCHE. 



Utl 



cast larval skin projecting behind. The 

 shape is peculiar. Nearly straight along the 

 ventral line, the head projecting a little ven- 

 trally and a slight indentation at base of 

 wing cases. Dorsum angled at the niesono- 

 tum and tirst abdominal segment, then ta- 

 pering to the anal segment ; wing cases raised 

 a little at their margins. No cremaster, the 

 anal end smooth and rounded, glued firmly 

 in the end of the cast skin, from which it is 

 with difficulty dissociated. Integument 

 soft and delicate ; pupa motionless. Thickly 

 overlaid purplish dots and mottlings on ^ 

 whitish ground, interspersed with a few 

 orange colored specks especially along the 

 dorsal line posteriorly and about the spira- 

 cles; wing cases purplish shaded, somewhat 

 wrinklj'. 



Food plant wild violet, on the lea\'es of 

 which the larvae feed. Double brooded, the 

 second generation said to hibernate as partly 

 grown larvae. Doubtless this generation 

 has more than four stages; the first genera- 

 tion is the one here described. 



Occurrence of Melanoplus extremus 

 IN Northern Labrador. — In 1864 during 

 a simimer spent on the Labrador Coast, I 

 found a Pezotettix-like species of Melano- 

 plus, with short wings, at Square Island, 

 but the species was not determined. 



Last summer Prof. E. B. Delabarre during 

 his expedition to northern Labrador ob- 

 served and collected some locusts, and 

 kindly presented me with three specimens. 



One is from Nachvak, collected at a point 

 two miles inland from the harbor, and two 

 others at Cape Mugford directly on the 

 coast, at a point 300-400 feet above the 

 level of the sea. The locusts were common 

 locally, in spots. Dr. Scudder has kindly 

 identified them as Melanoplus extremus 

 Junius. This is its first occurrence in the 

 Labrador peninsula, the species occurring 

 throughout British America and on the 

 summit of Mt. Washington, N. H. 



A. S. Packard. 



Occurrence of Anopheles qtiADRiMAc- 

 ULATUS IN Maine. — It may be well to note 

 the northernmost point where an undoubted 

 Anopheles has been found, and identified by 

 an expert. In a list of Diptera named for 

 me by Baron von Osten Sacken, the highest 

 living authority on Diptera, and especially 

 those of this country, is the name of this 

 mosquito. The insect was collected and 

 named for me about the years 1861-3. It 

 was not uncommon at Brunswick, Maine. 

 I am therefore familiar with this species, 

 having taken it several times since that date. 

 So far as I am aware no malaria has as yet 

 been known to exist in Maine, and there 

 at least Anopheles exists with a conscience 

 clear in re malariae. 



A. S. Packard. 



Correction — On p. 177, in the third col- 

 umn of the first table, the figures in the sec- 

 ond and third lines should be 136 and not 16. 



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